We have people inventing them, but even the ones that are invented aren't very helpful, because it's awfully hard to know how they did what they did.

有人试图还原古代战争,但是得出的结果并没有太大的意义,因为我们对此实在是知之甚少

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And in the ancient world, the reason for this was that this very small rectangle--;it's about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, about the size of Rhode Island--this very small rectangle lies on the way to anywhere worth going in the Ancient Near East.

在古代，战争的原因是,这小块矩形，长150公里，宽70公里，与罗德岛大小相当，这小块矩形处于要道,这条路通向古代近东的任何地区。

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